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Yes, but have you considered [INSERT OUTGROUP] are bad? /s
To play devil's advocate, considering that in evolutionary terms we just left the trees now, we're doing okay, honestly. I just don't know if it will be enough.
If you'd consider this broadly points at everything "ok", I'd frigging fear your "moderately bad" ๐
Moderately bad would be, for example, getting stuck in the agrarian neolithic for geological time because every significant technological advance leads to a devastating social collapse that wipes it away. If farming is already a new thing to the species, why shouldn't we struggle just to keep it going at a basic level?
I mean, technologies getting lost did happen all the time, and social progress basically didn't exist until recently. But, progress in both senses eventually came. By the 20th century there was little anyone from the paleolithic would recognise in Western life, and we adapted, with only a few health and demographic problems to show for it.